AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Latin American Religious give their full support and unreserved commitment for Peace in Colombia

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the CLAR Congress, Confederation of religious men and women of Latin America and the Caribbean, held these days in Bogota (see Fides 06/09/2015), a statement was issued in which the participants expressed full support to the peace process in Colombia.
The participants commit themselves to pray for peace and to take the cause of peace and reconciliation as a moral duty for the Latin American Catholic church.
"We will work more and more - says the text sent to Fides - alongside the victims, we will pray for the help and wisdom of the Spirit to commit ourselves wholeheartedly to this cause. "Ample space is dedicated to prayer for peace in Colombia and the Colombian government and the FARC terrorist group is asked "not to stop negotiations in Havana" until "the war in Colombia has ended". They also propose to open a table of dialogue with ELN (National Liberation Army), asking them to entirely abandon weapons and build together the structural changes that peace demands.
The CLAR Congress was attended by about 1,200 people and had the theme "Concrete developments in living our charism today". Among the specific objectives, emphasis was put on how to "propose new alternatives for Consecrated Life, find paths for Consecrated Life for a missionary disciple". (CE) (Agenzia Fides 24/06/2015)


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